Red Alert

Our store was supposed to have our once-a-year official walkthrough with the district manager on Monday and Tuesday of this week. Its silly in a way, as the DM is based out of our store. So he walks through everyday and sees just about everything we do wrong. But this is an official visit, and we get a score for it, so its kind of a big deal. I say the district walkthrough was supposed to be this week because it is no long er this week. It has been pre-empted by a Corporate walkthrough on Wednesday.

The regional manager, Janice,(Midwest, that's Texas to Minnesota for those coastal or international readers) will be touring instead. And she's bringing along a special guest: the Executive Vice President and Director of Stores for the entire company, Mike. Or rather, he is visiting and bringing Janice as his guest. Whichever way you spin it, the stress level went up about 1 million notches.

This will not be as bad as the time the CEO visited the store up in Maple Grove just after we first opened. Nevertheless, if you were planning on seeing or hearing form me between tonight and Wednesday at five you can just about forget it. I'll be working 9am to 9 pm at least on Monday and Tuesday.

But hey, I'm going to New York to visit Cupcake and other friends on Friday. So its not all bad news right?